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Anti-govt protesters vow not to back down till Sharif quits
Islamic State executed 700 of a Syrian tribe: Rights group
Russia’s Ukraine aid waits in limbo
German intel spied on Kerry, Hillary: Report
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Anti-govt protesters vow not to back down till Sharif quits
Islamabad, August 16 Unfazed by the country's apex court's order against any unconstitutional step to topple the government, the two Opposition groups held separate sit-ins, demanding Sharif's resignation and fresh polls alleging rigging during the last year's elections. "The time has arrived when the nation should decide. I will stay here until the Prime Minister resigns. We don't accept a Prime Minister who has been appointed after rigged elections," Khan, who heads the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaaf (PTI) told his supporters after arriving here in a convoy, travelling over 300 km from Lahore for his 'Azadi March'. "We went to the election commission and the Supreme Court against the rigging in the elections. When we could not get justice, then we decided that there is no other way but to come on roads to get justice," Khan, who is suffering from high fever, said. In the 2013 general elections, Sharif had won by a landslide, taking 190 out of 342 seats. Khan's PTI got 34 seats, the third largest bloc in the legislature. But he claimed his party should have had many more seats. Meanwhile, thousands of supporters of Pakistan Awami Tehreek (PAT) camping in an adjacent street was addressed by the Canada-based cleric, who demanded the arrest of Sharif and Punjab Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif over the killing of 14 of his supporters in a clash with police in Lahore on June 17. "I will not leave until Nawaz, Shahbaz are arrested," Qadri said. He said that a case is being registered against Sharif and Shahbaz over the Model Town incident. "Now it is up to police to either follow the due process and register an FIR or suffer the consequences," he said. In his seven-point charter of demands, the cleric also called for the dissolution of the national and provincial assemblies. He also demanded formation of a national government which works on the project of thorough democratic reforms in the country. — PTI Lahore mayhem: Court orders filing of murder charges against Nawaz
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Islamic State executed 700 of a Syrian tribe: Rights group
Beirut, August 16 The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, which has tracked violence on all sides of the three-year-old conflict, said that reliable sources reported beheadings were used to execute many of the al-Sheitaat tribe, which is from Deir al-Zor province. The conflict between Islamic State and the al-Sheitaat tribe, who number about 70,000, flared after Islamic State took over two oil fields in July. "Those who were executed are all al-Sheitaat," Observatory director Rami Abdelrahman said by telephone from Britain. "Some were arrested, judged and killed." Reuters cannot independently verify reports from Syria due to security conditions and reporting restrictions. The head of the al-Sheitaat tribe, Sheikh Rafaa Aakla al-Raju, called in a video message on Sunday for other tribes to join the fight. "We appeal to the other tribes to stand by us because it will be their turn next ... If (Islamic State) are done with us the other tribes will be targeted after al-Sheitaat. They are the next target," he said in the video, posted on YouTube. — Reuters Jihadists massacre 80 Yazidis in Iraq
Baghdad: Details emerged of a massacre carried out by jihadists in a northern Iraq village on Saturday, as world powers ramped up efforts to cut their funding, arm Kurds battling them and assist those they displaced. Dozens of civilians were killed, most of them followers of the Yazidi faith, officials said as the Islamic State group fighters pressed their offensive against minority groups in the north. Militants entered the village of Kocho yesterday and “committed a massacre,” senior Iraqi official Hoshyar Zebari told AFP, citing sources from the region and intelligence reports. “Around 80 of them have been killed,” he said. |
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Russia’s Ukraine aid waits in limbo
Kamensk-Shakhtinsk, Aug 16 Moscow and Kiev's top diplomats agreed to an urgent meeting with their French and German counterparts tomorrow in an attempt to calm the soaring tensions, as wrangling continued over the fate of a mammoth Russian aid convoy parked up close to the Ukrainian frontier. The US National Security Council warned of an "extremely dangerous and provocative" escalation in the crisis by Russia after Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko claimed his troops had blown up part of small Russian army convoy-separate from the humanitarian convoy-that breached the border. Russia dismissed the claim as "fantasies," its latest denial of persistent allegations from the West that it is arming the rebels. But the EU piled the pressure on Moscow by insisting it "put an immediate stop to any form of border hostilities, in particular to the flow of arms, military advisers and armed personnel into the conflict region". — AFP |
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German intel spied on Kerry, Hillary: Report
Berlin, August 16 The respected news weekly reported that the agency, known by its German acronym BND, tapped a satellite phone conversation Kerry made in 2013 as part of its surveillance of telecommunications in the Middle East. The agency also recorded a conversation between Clinton and former UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan a year earlier, Der Spiegel claimed. — AP |
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